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" Frank Miller&amp;#039;s original cover design for The Dark Knight Returns #2 has sold for $478,000 (\u00C2\u00A3311,000) in an auction. The illustration is the first cover sketch from the iconic 1986 miniseries to go under the hammer, although Heritage Auctions has previously sold interior artwork from issue #1.  The pen and ink sketch was expected to raise more than $500,000 (\u00C2\u00A3326,000), according to The AP. Widely considered to be one of the greatest Batman stories ever told, The Dark Knight Returns sees an aged Bruce Wayne comes out of retirement to clean up Gotham City. Warner Bros animation released a two-part feature adaptation of the comic series last year, with Peter Weller voicing Bruce Wayne and Ariel Winter as the Carrie Kelly version of Robin. A CGC 9.2-certified copy of Batman #1 was sold for $567,625 (\u00C2\u00A3371,442) at the same auction. Watch a trailer for the Dark Knight Returns animation below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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